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Definition of Speaker

Speaker

  1. One who speaks.
  2. One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker.
  3. One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides over, or speaks for, a delibrative assembly, preserving order and regulating the debates; as, the Speaker of the House of Commons, originally, the mouthpiece of the House to address the king; the Speaker of a House of Representatives.
  4. A book of selections for declamation.

Speaker Quotations

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
Robert Orben

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
Dale Carnegie

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Frederick Douglass

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
H. L. Mencken

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle
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Speaker Translations

speaker in French is haut parleur, locuteur
speaker in German is Sprecher, Sprecher, Redner
speaker in Italian is altoparlante
speaker in Spanish is altavoz

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